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Firstly apologies, I know I was supposed to post this last night but I ended up with a serious headache and I was struggling to look at the computer screen so I just left it till today.
Here is the video of Leigh demonstrating how to use resistance bands whilst we are all stuck in lockdown. If you don’t have resistance bands you can get some from amazon at this link: https://amzn.to/2WFoLVK
Look out for more videos from us on things you can do during lockdown when you aren’t able to do any real archery and remember to subscribe to our channel so you don’t miss anything.
Yes that’s right, Weir Archery now have our very own YouTube channel! Obviously it will take us a while to get videos on there and I admit to not being the greatest cameraperson/video director in the world but we thought it would be a good way to bring archery to more people, especially just now when we are all stuck at home.
Leigh has put up a welcome video and has been trying to film a few things today for me to edit and post later so please do subscribe to the channel and keep an eye out for new videos from us.
We will be putting another video up later today showing you the video of how to use resistance bands like on our last blog post and will continue to bring you ideas of archery related things you can do from home until lockdown is over.
Myself and Leigh would like to thank you for supporting us by visiting the website or our new YouTube channel and we promise that as soon as we can we will be back providing face to face archery sessions.
Disclaimer: this post contains affiliate links, if you purchase something through one of these links we may earn a small commission however this does not affect the price you pay.
Lets face it, most of us don’t have massive, safely secured gardens that are suitable for an archery set up and because of that we find ourselves unable to shoot due to the covid-19 lockdown. There are things you can do at home though to keep your skills practiced that way when lockdown is lifted you can go back to shooting as normal.
One thing you can do is use resistance bands to practice your form. This helps you ensure your body is in the correct position as if you were actually taking a shot as well as work the same muscle groups that you use when doing archery.
Resistance bands come in different levels of resistance and you can also change the resistance by folding or tying them up to make them shorter. Here are some photos showing you how to use a resistance band to practice your form.
First take a resistance band and fold it in half like in this picture.
Next place the folded end in the crook of your left elbow (assuming you shoot right handed, if you are left handed you would use your right arm), don’t pull the band tight at this stage. Pinch where your thumb is and this will give you the correct length.
Thread the loose end between your fingers like the photo below, this makes the band easier to hold.
Put your three fingers into the looped end just like you would use when shooting an arrow then prepare to draw.
Then pull to your anchor point and hold for a few seconds. You can let go as if you were firing an arrow but the band will slap your hand so your better option is to release this position slowly without letting go of the band.
Practicing this several times will work the same muscles as shooting arrows does and allow you to practice your form.
We will have some more ideas for how to keep your archery hobby going during lockdown in the coming weeks and look our for some videos too!
Here at Weir Archery we are obviously really missing archery during lockdown. Covid-19 has obviously closed us down along with thousands of other businesses whilst we are all in lockdown. Leigh has been finding different things to do to keep archery going for him and I have been coming up with different things we can do as a business to keep the business going, including blogging more often and monetising the blog (see amazon ad above) from now on our posts may include affiliate links, clicking on these may earn us a small commission but it does not affect the price you pay and it really does help support our business.
The reason I chose an Amazon Prime advert as our very first ad is because we have been watching a whole lot of it! We are currently watching Mr Robot which is pretty interesting but only give it a go if you are a tech geek like me or it probably wont make much sense. Leigh loves Supernatural but I am really not into that type of thing. Leigh loves TV and movies almost as much as he likes archery!
There is even archery on Prime including the world cup!
I am still working, thankfully I can work from home and we have spent quite a lot of time converting the spare room into something that resembles an office and I have had to get over my dislike of talking on the phone pretty quickly since that is now all I do all day. Leigh obviously can’t do any classes just now, but we have some exciting ideas coming up including a video series and more content on the blog.
We are also using the downtime to source better venues with more availability for us to hold classes in once the coronavirus lockdown is over and we are seriously considering trying to get our own place which would allow us to have more equipment since we wouldn’t need to move it about all the time and would give us complete flexibility as to when we run classes.
For now though we are just thankful that we are safe, we are of course disappointed that we cannot run classes right now but we are very safety conscious in our day to day business and safety remains our top priority. We will not start running classes again until the government advice allows and it is safe to do so.
Until we can start running again we would love to keep in touch with you more via the blog, videos and our social media channels so please do share your lockdown tips with us – in our next post we will be showing you some archery related things you can do in lockdown.
